About this site: This site is intended to accompany and supplement a series of lecture presentations to Oakland Unified School District teachers on March 5 and 12, 2005. Click on the book covers on the right, or the titles in the navigation bar on the left, to go to information about the four books that will be discussed during the March presentations. Information about the presenters may be found here. A map to the OUSD Technology Learning Center, where the presentations will take place, is here.

How to use this site: Click on the desired book title from the navigation bar on the far left of this page, or on one of the book cover images on the right. At the destination page, you will find links to online text sources, as well as additional resources and information. A number of external sites at universities, libraries and museums, as well as occasional curriculum sites, are referenced. 

At each page that contains reference information about one of the books, materials are grouped into categories listed at the top of the page. On those pages, you may scroll down or jump to a desired topic by clicking on it.

Throughout this entire site URLs remain visible (not hidden under hyperlinked text). Showing the URL may make the pages appear a bit unfinished, but it keeps the location information visible, and makes links easily accessible to be pasted into documents or browsers. At the bottom of each page is a "print" button that will create a frame- and image-free page for printing.

Following this paragraph are a number of links to general sites not associated with any of the four books that will be discussed in this series. These sites provide various kinds of curricular and organizational reference and example materials to aide and to supplement teachers as they research and prepare for classroom lessons.

Please note that unless explicitly stated, materials presented or linked to throughout this website have not been chosen or endorsed by the four presenters who will speak on March 5 and March 12; gathered from many sources, materials referenced at this site are a compliment to, not an extension of, the four oral presentations.

General Web Resources for Literature and History Teachers:

Oakland

• Urban Dreams (OUSD): http://urbandreams.ousd.k12.ca.us/index.html
  
• Teaching American History (OUSD): http://www.teachingamericanhistory.us/

California

• California Department of Education Curriculum and Instruction page: http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/
  
• California Department of Education Reading/Language Arts page: http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/rl/
  
• California State Board of Education Content Standards site: http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/index.asp
  
• Schools of California Online Resources for Education: http://www.score.k12.ca.us/

National

• Heath Anthology of American Literature: http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/bassr/heath/
  
• The Great Books Foundation: http://www.greatbooks.org/index.html
  
• Edsitement — National Endowment for the Humanities: http://edsitement.neh.gov/
  
• American Memory — Library of Congress: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/
  
• Literary History — Indexing the Internet: http://www.literaryhistory.com/index.htm

Site creation: This site has been created for the Oakland Unified School District's Urban Dreams Project by the Interactive University Project at the University of California, Berkeley. Some materials found at this site were produced by the Oakland Unified School district, in particular some are archived Urban Dreams work and some were originally created and posted by OUSD's Teaching American History Project. Credit and copyright for produced material remains with the producers; all sources for materials are noted as appropriate; all linked materials are freely available to Internet users. Effort has been made to reference academically appropriate material that is free of charge and in the public domain, however a few linked sites may contain additional materials or services for sale, no endorsement or recommendation for these is given or implied by their inclusion here.

About the Urban Dreams Project: Urban Dreams is part of the Oakland Unified School District's Office of Instructional Technology. The project is designed to support the work of History and English teachers, in grades 9-12, by providing access to appropriate technology tools and professional development opportunities. A focus on teaching and learning about Human Rights and Civil Rights provides the thematic context in which students work to improve their skills as readers and writers.

About the Interactive University Project: The Interactive University Project uses the Internet to open UC Berkeley’s resources and people to California’s K-12 schools, and to citizens. Its goal is to create means and methods for technology to improve teaching and learning while making accessible the knowledge in universities, museums and libraries. The Interactive University Project is a campus-wide initiative of UC Berkeley and K-12 community partnerships.

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